Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP problem

2014-07-10 Thread real-men-dont-click
forget about ifconfig. It's outdated. In my experience it nowadays is a never ending cause of trouble. That's what I found out as known to work: http://wiki.system-admin.info/doku.php?id=openindiana_tips_and_tricks#network Hope this may help Carsten -Original message- From:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry wrote: And in that case it would be virtual drives being created on SSD hardware. Will that setup be likely to be more problematic than a non-virtual install of oi on that hardware? Bryan N Iotti ironsides.med...@runbox.com writes: At that point, OI doesn't see the real disks, so

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP problem

2014-07-10 Thread Michelle Knight
Thanks Carsten, I'll rebuild the box again and try this. Michelle. On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:00 +0200 real-men-dont-cl...@gmx.net wrote: forget about ifconfig. It's outdated. In my experience it nowadays is a never ending cause of trouble. That's what I found out as known to work:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Brogyányi József bro...@gmail.com writes: I do not recommend to use it. My experiences are same what I read this site: http://breden.org.uk/2009/09/02/home-fileserver-handling-pool-errors/ The SSD produced an error under only one week. I do not wan to use daily scrub and clear the zpool

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Static IP problem

2014-07-10 Thread Michelle Knight
Thanks Carsten, That appears to work and survive reboots. An obvious error with the ... ipadm create-if beg0 ...when the interface already exists and is up, but ... job done! Many thanks, Michelle. On Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:05:00 +0200 real-men-dont-cl...@gmx.net wrote: forget about

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Bryan N Iotti
At that point your data integrity is only as good as the filesystem on the host OS  (NTFS) , where your OI ZFS drives are stored as files. ZFS can't protect you from much there, even though this can be improved a little if you put each virtual drive on a different disk on the host. That's why

[OpenIndiana-discuss] why can't I rename be?

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I've followed a series of steps to update a 151_a8 install to the latest 151.1.9. The formula suggested naming the new be with a more reasonable name. In this case I jumped right out with a be named 151_9. But, of course, that is a bit wrong... The new packages all have something like 151.1.9

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] a question of oi OS on ssd

2014-07-10 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry wrote: I'm not sure I get your meaning there... why would I not be able to benefit from zfs? Bryan N Iotti ironsides.med...@runbox.com responded: At that point your data integrity is only as good as the filesystem on the host OS  (NTFS) , where your OI ZFS drives are stored as files.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] why can't I rename be?

2014-07-10 Thread Predrag Zecevic
Hi, you cannot rename active BE... so: pfexec beadm activate openindiana pfexec beadm rename 151_9 new_name pfexec beadm activate new_name Regards. Am 10.07.2014 18:15, schrieb Harry Putnam: I've followed a series of steps to update a 151_a8 install to the latest 151.1.9. The formula

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE repositories

2014-07-10 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, there is plan always. But it depends on what you need to update there. Best regards, Milan On st, 2014-07-09 at 10:47 +0200, Predrag Zecevic [Unix Systems Administrator] wrote: Hi, does anyone knows if there are plans to update SFE repositories? Packages there are bit outdated: